Chapter 2 : 2.3

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Chapter 2

 2.3 The face of the earth is changing

Program

Review 2.2

Short explanation 2.3

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Learning goals

•You know what is typical for the geological periods: Precambrium, Permian, Creatceous & the Quaternary

• You are able to read and use a geological time scale

On Venus it is ......... than on Earth

Tekst

1. Colder
2. Warmer

Give an example of an organic sedimentary rock

Oceanic crust consists of:

1. Basalt
2. Granite

CO2 is collected in:

1. Granite
2. Sandstone
3. Limestone
4. Basalt

Geological time scale

Different periods based on rocks, plants and animals.

Geological time scale

- 4,6 billion years old

-Page 42 in book

-oldest period in the bottom, youngest period at the top

- time of period is based on typical rocks, animals or plants

What is the correct order of geological periods?

1. Permian, Cretaceous, Precambrium
2. Cretaceous, Precambrium, Permian
3. Precambrium, Permian, Cretaceous

What is the name of the supercontinent

1. Europe
2. Wegener
3. Laurasia
4. Pangaea

Are the plates nowadays in the same postition as during Pangaea?

1. YES
2. NO

Why did Pangaea broke up?

1. Earthquakes
2. Rivers
3. Plate tectonics
4. Mammoths

Why was the sea level during the Cretaceous 300 meters higher than it is nowadays?

1. There was an ice age
2. It was the warmest period on Earth
3. The plates were drifted far from each other
4. It was Pangaea

During the Cretaceous there were a lot of ...... alive

1. Ammonites
2. Trilobites
3. Mammoths
4. Humans

During which period there was a huge desert?

1. Cretaceous
2. Permian
3. Holocene
4. Carboniferous

Pangaea was in:

1. Precambrium
2. Permian
3. Cretaceous
4. Quaternary

The period in which we live now is called:

1. Pleistocene
2. Holocene
3. Cretaceous
4. Jurassic

What is the correct order? 1 is the oldesrt. 

Permian

Triassic

Jurassic

Cretaceous

Pleistocene

Holocene

Holocene

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2.2

1, 2, 4 & 5

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2.3

Exercise: 2, 3 & 6